Review: Witch Craft Works

I am personally a big fan of magic based anime, since I love the use of animation and how they handle a story based around it, so I was pretty excited to watch Witch Craft Works since it was one based around witches in a comedy situation, but sadly the anime came off as a fairly cliché story. The story is centered around Takamiya Honoka who is just seems to be a regular student with the absolute worst misfortune to sit beside the school’s #1 beauty, Kagari Ayaka. There has been very little interaction between the two, since whenever there had been in the past it usually resulted in Takamiya getting beaten up by her fan-club. Then, all of a sudden Kagari saves him from a falling building in the school and reveals she has been assigned to protect him since he contains a special being within him. So, straight away we have an interesting story starting off which, in my opinion, didn’t keep flowing well since the whole concept of the being contained within Takamiya gets muddled and very confusing the more the show goes on and the introduction of various groups wanting to get their hands on Takamiya. Otherwise the story is pretty decent for a twelve episode anime and it is nice to just stick on whether in need for a laugh or just something to watch.

Kagari saving Takamiya

The artwork is where this anime shines through for me.The backgrounds are drawn beautifully and the battles/fight scenes are designed so well and it doesn’t take away from the action happening in them. The character designs are well done, but do leave a little room for improvement, but other from that this was one anime series that impressed me completely on its animation.

One moment of stunning artwork

The soundtrack is fantastic with a very addictive opening and ending it will quickly draw you in and just be listening to them on repeat until you inevitably get sick of the song, the music during the certain scenes fit’s very well and I found it a pleasant experience while watching.

The characters are very interesting! Since we get a varied selection of characters like Takamiya, who is the male protagonist but the way the show portray’s him it is as the “princess” of the female protagonist, which makes for a large amount comedy. The addition of the five witches sent to capture Takamiya also have distinctive personalities, which all add up to just an outrageous amount of comedy since they are useless as witches or at least in comparison to Kagari! The worst element of the characters is the clichéd sister being in love with her brother theme since it is something that is often responsible for anime series to bomb nowadays since I feel it is massively overdone.

Well that certainly clears thing’s up !

Five witches that mysteriously transfer into Takamiya’s class after his existence is revealed

Overall this was a rather enjoyable anime, nothing amazing but nothing too bad either. The anime is nice and short with only 12 episodes and a very light humoured story which is at best able to fill in if need something to watch or need an anime to have a laugh over. I do recommend it to people if you have free time or need a general laugh at something silly.

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Games, Anime and Movies! There is literally nothing that doesn't interest me. I probably watch too much anime and want to live in a fantasy world. I am that guy who plays all the those Japanese games nobody else plays. I generally review different anime shows and said Japanese games for the site as well as doing a few interviews with talented voice actors and other people of interest.

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